Table 1.
Characteristics of respondents for cost-per-episode of influenza outcome estimation among children < 5-year-old in Suzhou, 2011/12 to 2016/17 influenza seasons.
| Non-medically attended b (n = 2,171) n (%) |
Outpatient (n = 799) n (%) |
Hospitalization (n = 436) n (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
| |||
| Male | 1135 (52.3) | 466 (58.3) | 272 (62.4) |
| Age distribution (Month) | |||
| 0–5 | – | 39 (4.9) | 61 (14.0) |
| 6–23 | 406 (18.7) | 313 (39.2) | 191 (43.8) |
| 24–35 | 201 (9.3) | 174 (21.8) | 60 (13.8) |
| 36–59 | 1564 (72.0) | 273 (34.2) | 124 (28.4) |
| Household registered in Suzhou (Suzhou Hukou) | 957 (44.1) | 509 (63.7) | 314 (72.0) |
| Comorbidity a | 30 (1.4) | 32 (4.0) | 38 (8.7) |
| Hospitalized Day, median days (IQR) | – | – | 7 (6,8) |
| Lost productivity days of caregivers, median days (IQR) | – | 0 (0,2) | 7 (6,9) |
| Lost school day, median days (IQR) | – | 0 (0,2) | 7 (6,9) |
Data were n(%) or as otherwise indicated. IQR: Inter-quartile range.
a
Comorbidity includes congenital heart disease, asthma and other chronic lung disease, neuromuscular disease, kidney disease, blood dyspraxia and HIV.
b
Non-medically attended influenza was not laboratory confirmed and used non-medically attended influenza-like illness (ILI) as proxy. We assumed that the characteristics were similar between influenza and non-influenza non-medically attended ILI cases.